In Taylor v. Louisiana, 419 U.S. 522, 95 S. Ct. 692, 42 L. Ed. 2d 690 (1975), the United States Supreme Court held that Louisiana's jury selection statutes denied defendants a constitutional Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial. Louisiana law excluded women from jury service unless they previously filed a written declaration of their desire to be subject to jury service. Women represented 53 percent of those eligible for jury service but only 10 percent of those on the jury list of the parish where Taylor was tried. The Court stated: It should also be emphasized that in holding that petit juries must be drawn from a source fairly representative of the community we impose no requirement that petit juries actually chosen must mirror the community and reflect the various distinctive groups in the population. Defendants are not entitled to a jury of any particular composition; but the jury wheels, pools of names, panels, or venires from which juries are drawn must not systematically exclude distinctive groups in the community and thereby fail to be reasonably representative thereof. Taylor, 419 U.S. at 538. The Court explained the requirement guards against the exercise of arbitrary power, insuring that the "commonsense judgment of the community" will act as a "hedge against the overzealous or mistaken prosecutor," preserving "public confidence in the fairness of the criminal justice system," and implementing the belief that "sharing in the administration of justice is a phase of civic responsibility." Id. at 530-31.